It does require them to 'fess up and say sorry 'tho.
They still haven't done so. Neither have they removed the image,
which is being seen by thousands of people, daily, and lauded as A Good
Thing.
When the image goes, and they state it was inappropriate, then is the
time to give them slack. Whilst they continue to go "la la la la" as
they stick their fingers in their ears, they'll still not get a penny of
my money. Not when the money can go to people who do good on the ground
and don't use bottle images. Accountability, and all that. They have
to show willing too. Making mistakes is one thing - refusing to
acknowledge it, or undo the harm, quite another.
Image still there - still being seen, day in, day out. Oxfam still
putting their name to it....
Morgan Gallagher
Karleen Gribble wrote:
> Hi Morgan,
> I think that many aid orgs have difficulty getting their PR people to
> understand about bottles and formula and also that the best response
> when a mistake is discovered is to fess up and say sorry. It's
> unacceptable but doesn't necessarily mean that what happens on the
> ground is bad. Mistakes like these are a reflection of the culture
> from which the workers come. We just need to keep at them so that they
> become part of changing the culture.
> Karleen Gribble
> Australia
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Morgan Gallagher"
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>
>> Oxfam GB also stated recently a baby bottle is "an object that
>> represents motherhood" and refused to either accept that a baby bottle
>> was an unacceptable image in a video they helped make, promoting the end
>> to world hunger and poverty, or to refute their response-to-complaints
>> statement that it is "an object that represents motherhood".
>>
>> If you are sending money to Oxfam GB, you need to consider their
>> attitude to baby bottles, and their disregard of baby bottle deaths.
>> Many of the other Oxfam groups, similarly echoed the sentiment that
>> having a baby bottle to represent motherhood in such a video, was Not A
>> Big Deal. It's in light of this, that Oxfam USA are offering baby
>> bottles in their unwrapped presents.
>>
>> http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2008/09/oxfam-not-in-my-name.html
>>
>> http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2008/09/shame.html
>>
>> http://one-of-those-women.blogspot.com/2008/10/if-you-are-cancelling-your-oxfam-sub.html
>>
>>
>> Oxfam GB also tried to use Baby Milk Action's name, as a 'defence' of
>> their actions - without mentioning it to Baby Milk Action.
>>
>> Morgan Gallagher
>>
>> Rachel O'Leary wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Oxfam GB does not have any artificial feeding products on its
>>> Unwrapped gift list. It also sometimes funds the work of Baby Milk
>>> Action, the British IBFAN group :)))
>>>
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